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"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...

about prejudice first hand, and when a teacher separated the white and black children, he would go with the white. She corrected h...

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

This paper examines the issue of identity and 'passing' within the context of James Weldon's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Ma...

In five pages this paper examines blackness as it is featured in this novel by James Weldon Johnson. There are no other sources l...

This paper critiques the blackness representation featured in The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson in fi...

In seven pages this paper examines the concept of 'passing' in a consideration of the book and the duplicity of author James Weldo...

In two pages the issues that influenced the class biases of the author are considered along with two examples in which the narrato...

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

imagination. In offering the reader such a look into the individual the reader is made to see the beauty of imagination as it rela...

poverty to a position of wealth. While many people who wanted this particular American Dream of wealth and material possessions ...

believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your...

and vows that her life will be different. Due to her assimilation of the American ethos, she rejects the Judaic tenet that she is ...

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...

Fitzgerald was seeking in his style and the forms that were emerging in relationship to the 20s. Berman notes how many of his stor...

gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...

and honor were really worth possessing. The Great Gatsby In first discussing Fitzgeralds story we look at the man who is Gats...

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

the age of about thirteen and well-brought-up boy children from about eight years old on...I forgot to add that I liked old men --...

In seven pages this essay analyzes the motivation behind the title character's obsession with Daisy Buchanan and what she represen...

In five pages a character analysis of Jay Gatsby and some insights into his true identity are presented. There are no other sourc...

expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...

the foundation of the past that Jay will always try to defy. In essence, as he grows he tries to make money, become powerful, and ...

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is examined with the focus being upon the obsessive love Jay Gatsby had for ...

far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to sh...

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...